Oh God, he's got daughters. Great. Incidentally, 'John' (if that is your real name), my father's main influence over me was to make me pathologically desperate to be as unlike him as possible. All the more so if he said some shit like this to me.

There is a lot of arrogance behind remarks like that. You would have to have a very high opinion of yourself to even think something like that, let alone say it into a microphone when you know your own face and spare tyre have been seen countless times by the public.

Even the comentary on BBC1 was biased towards Lisicki because she was tall & blonde. The cameras coverage was more on Lisicki than on Bartoli. I hardly watched wimbledon because of the commentary, which is getting more & more irritating each year.

I am not surprised he said it tbh, there appears to be now more male presenters who like Saville saw women as objects. Inverfale made sexist comments & Saville went one step further & acted on them, the BBC covered up then & are apologising now. Not much has changed.

I was also a night or so before when his opening comments were that the two women's matches were "two local derbies," as they were between a French woman and a Belgian, and a German and a Pole respectively!

I was outraged a) at the jingoism of it "all those johnny foreigner places are the same" and b) the idea that anyone can put forward the notion that Poland and Germany are the same place, when one so infamously invaded the other in an attempt to make them become the same country.

DH said I was overthinking it.

I may now re-visit this argument now JI's twattery has been officially recognised.